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Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
ROBERT INDIANA Numbers.
Complete set of 4 color screenprints on wood panels in wood box with screenprint cover, 1966. Each panel: 223x225x20 mm; 9x9x1 inches; box: 275x275x90 mm; 11x11x3 1/2 inches (overall). Signed, dated and numbered 3/50 in felt-tip pen and black ink (the edition numbering crossed out; the edition was abandoned due to production and material difficulties), and extensively annotated in pencil, underside of box cover. Printed by Stephen Poleskie, Chiron Press, New York.
The scale and color combinations of the numbers in this box set correspond to those in Indiana's (1928-2018) iconic Exploding Numbers, set of 4 oils on canvas, 1964-66, now in a private collection. This box was likely based on these panels and was created during the time Indiana was working with Poleskie at Chiron Press, New York, on the Paris Review Poster, color screenprint, 1965, and Purim: The Four Facets of Esther I and II, color screenprints, 1967.
Only one other Numbers set has previously been offered at auction, this was sold at Swann Auction Galleries, November 19, 2020, sale number 2522, lot 222, and was ex-collection Stephen Poleskie, Chiron Press, New York.
